From weather patterns and food supplies to society’s daily electricity and heating needs, energy drives everything we know. Created with the National Center for Science Education and the American Geosciences Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy’s new energy literacy video series highlights the seven principles that demonstrate energy’s role across the natural and social sciences.

Topics include how economics and other factors determine energy choices, and the physical and biological processes on Earth that depend on energy flows.

The video series is part of a broader set of education resources, lessons, and activities maintained by the Energy Department’s office of energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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